That all you got?
That'd be Mercia, yeah...
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That all you got?
Alright, new update. Somerset and Bath are still within my realm, but the British Isles are now divided between the Ummayads, Australaisia, a new Irish kingdom, and Scandanavia. I myself am now Cathar. I wish I wasn't though so I could try and get the pope to call for a crusade on the Ummayads, or at least that the Mongols would come and throw some wrenches around.
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Maybe we’ll see a Stellaris 2 at some point in the next couple years?
"Can't make an omelette without breaking some children." -Bur
That all you got?
I doubt it. Paradox games normally have way longer between installments.
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Redmess
The new EUIV DLC is out, for those who haven't noticed yet.
Optimism is a duty.
That all you got?
I’m serious though, the Ummayadds are so annoying. I knew things would fall apart in the British Isles while I was in Italy and I was right! My Council won’t let me declare a holy war on them either.
I mean, I’d probably lose anyway because the Umayyads would have me outnumbered 10 to 1, but I have a huge fuckload of money so I can summon as many mercenaries as I need.
They’ve also had a large number of rebellions recently, and I’m hoping they’ll have a Decadence revolt and break up eventually.
Edited by theLibrarian on Jun 11th 2020 at 8:50:00 AM
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Redmess
Sometimes EUIV runs very sluggish when I start or play it, and sometimes it doesn't, and there doesn't seem to be any clear cause. Any idea what it might be?
Also interesting: Germany's missions are basically what they do during World War II, but in the 17th century. Conquer the Netherlands, conquer France, conquer Poland, conquer Scandinavia. You are also told to utterly crush all British navies. It stops short of a mission into Russia, amusingly enough.
Edited by Redmess on Jun 11th 2020 at 10:28:39 AM
Optimism is a duty.
There's your problem. Best get rid of that.
In the meantime, eat the rest of Britain off the various other contenders. (You're cross-religion from them too, right?)
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
That all you got?
Pretty sure, yeah. I mean, the Irish kingdom may still be Catholic but otherwise...
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I mean, what else are you gonna do after forming Germany? Unless you're like me and enforcing sensible borders on yourself. 
Redmess
The point is that these missions are rather... anachronistic. And rather specific to Nazi Germany, too.
If I was a German, I'd be a little peeved at my nation getting pigeon holed like that. But I am Dutch, and their first mission I saw was to crush my own country, so... 
Hey, I'm German and at some point you get used to it. We always get hit with the conquering stick in strategy games (looking at you, CIV).
You wanna know what really gets my goat, though? They finally added my birthplace
to EU4 - and it's a releasable with generic ideas.
Way to crush my enthusiasm, Paradox.
Guess I'm gonna do a Burgundy -> Lotharingia game when the fix patch comes out.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Jun 12th 2020 at 8:16:27 PM
Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.
Redmess
Man, the new HRE is pretty nuts with how many small countries suddenly can join up. It usually ends up spreading over half of Europe.
Optimism is a duty.
That all you got?
So, following a series of wars with the Ummayads (which I actually did way better than I thought I would, partly because of how strong my armies are, partly because my Queen is a brilliant strategiest, partly because of my FUCKLOADS OF MONEY which I used to hire SO MANY sellswords), I conquered I think...half? Maybe? Of the provinces I need to found England. The Umayyads eventually broke up as well because of decadence, which left only a small faction on the British Isles, though the same faction does still have some territory in northern France.
The one problem is that I'd betrothed my daughter (and sole child) to the Irish and it wasn't matrilineally so I may end up having to once again break away from the kingdom if I end up getting absorbed...
I'm planning to get rid of the last bunch of Muslims on the island, then taking over the Australasian portion of England and then found England. It's also now the 1220s. I think I only have around 220 more years left in the game...I want to at least found England and be independent by the time the game is over.
Edited by theLibrarian on Jun 13th 2020 at 11:03:38 AM
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Lesson to take away from this: Muslims are only strong when they're winning. Kick their ass, and they shatter like glass.
That all you got?
Seems so, yeah. Then again they were already at like 80 decadence.
But yeah the weird thing is my queen has only had one child her entire reign. And I think she's in like her 50s now so probably beyond childbearing age but I can't divorce my husband in good faith. Even taking the seduction focus didn't do anything.
Thankfully I was able to at least make it so I wouldn't lose my land through Gavelkind. I just really don't want to have to fight for my independence again.
Edited by theLibrarian on Jun 15th 2020 at 8:55:27 AM
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They call me.... Prophet
It's why i dislike playing Muslim in CK 2. Everything's swell until some guy in your bloodline becomes decadent and starts magically ruining everything. Both with really annoying nobodies and with powerful brothers/uncles who you cannot easily murder.
I hate decadence as a mechanic, it's just plain anti-fun.
Edited by devak on Jun 18th 2020 at 9:58:23 PM
That all you got?
Considering Muslims always start off in a very strong position I imagine it's a balance issue.
Because seriously, before they broke up, the Ummayads owned all of North Africa, Spain, and France, to say nothing of the huge portion of Britannia they owned.
And who knows what's going to happen now that they've broken up.
Anyway, my Stellaris game is going alright. I won a war recently and have been pretty steadily expanding, at least until the Great Khan woke up in the Marauder faction closest to me. I ended up surrendering to him and becoming a satrap after one battle (better he not conquer any of my territory) with the intention of smashing whatever successor states come later when he inevitably dies.
Edited by theLibrarian on Jun 18th 2020 at 10:30:20 AM
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That is probably the best way to deal with the Great Khan if you aren't prepared to crush him when he appears.
That all you got?
I probably could have held out if it was just one fleet, but the Khan's personal fleet also came so I was horrifically outgunned.
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That all you got?
Double post but, progress update in CK 2! Thankfully despite me not having a male heir my lands weren't absorbed by the Irish kingdom. We've also managed to take back one of the last bastions of Islam on the British Isles, fought off a Catholic holy war (not a full crusade though) and am also having to retake Hwicce after I accidentally freed a vassal to get them back on my side.
Also nearly had a game over because the two sons of my first queen's daughter were from a different dynasty but thankfully I was able to get all my vassals on my side long enough to go from Primogeniture to Seniority, saving me from it and keeping my throne within the Cerdicings.
Once I get back to the game I'll re-distribute all the provinces I've gotten back because the various nobles I gave them to never bothered to have children for some reason, finish off the Muslims, get all the remaining wayward provinces back into the fold, then move into East Anglia and whatnot to push Austrasia out. I have more than enough money to take on whatever they send against me, so I'll be good and in control of England.
Maybe I'll try and grab Wales and Scotland before the game ends, though it's like 1272.
Oh, and France and Aquitaine are now back after a “Crusade” so Europe is semi back to normal now. I put crusade in quotation marks because it ended almost as soon as it was declared somehow.
Edited by theLibrarian on Jun 25th 2020 at 10:11:42 AM
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Pink Panzer the head dev of New Order: Last Days of Europe has announced that the mod is coming out July 21st
It's crazy that it's finally happening, for those unaware TNO is an extremely ambitious mod set in an alternate history where Germany won WW 2 and solidly lost the peace.
It's been in development for a very long time and it's great to receive an opportunity to enjoy the proper 1.0 version.
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
That all you got?
Freaking FINALLY. Can’t wait to play it and watch the Third Reich collapse.
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Agreed.
I'm going to play as Imperial Japan for my first playthrough. They look rather interesting and in my experience "victorious Japan" is covered far less in alt-history media then "victorious Nazis" so it'll be refreshing to see what TNO does with it.
Speaking of which, for those interested, there is a fan-made political compass
◊ of the various PM candidate for Japan and the issues they stand for.
Personally I'm most interested in Okinori Kaya. He combines the good (anti-corruption, mostly anti-big business) with the bad (despotic totalitarianism) juuust right.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Jun 26th 2020 at 12:45:30 PM
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
Then don't use it on a big title. Pick something smaller. Perhaps a Duchy that you would like to add to your holdings. Maybe one of the other nobles from that Independence faction you were a part of....